Dirt Cheep Dungeons Basic Set (COLOR)

Dirt Cheep Dungeons is three-dimensional scenery for the classic fantasy adventure environment, with modular 3-D floor blocks, walls, doors, and furnishings! You can build underground complexes as big as you like, and customize them with stairways, pits, torches, corridors -- all in full three-dimensional scale and now in FULL COLOR! Dirt Cheep Dungeons is completely interchangable with all our other Dirt Cheep systems, including Dirt Cheep Terrain for outdoor scenes -- allowing you to model ancient buildings, ruins and dungeons and their outdoor surroundings all at once!This Dirt Cheep Dungeons Basic Set by Greg Poehlein has been beautifully colorized by artist A. J. Stone. Itcontains the basics for dungeon construction (or for other sorts of ancient stone building interiors in castles and tombs) in easily customized black-and-white. You get the basic modular floor sections, plus varying lengths of room and corridor walls, assorted doorway pieces, stairs, and scenic accessories such as torches and chests -- plus 3-D open pit floor sections!This Basic Set is also available in a black-and-white version (MTX-DCD1001). In addition, MicroTactix offers a full-color Heroic Dungeons set (MTX-DCD3001) which is designed especially for those wanting a 1.5 inch square grid to use with click-base or other large base figures!

Dirt Cheep Dungeons was one of the first print-it-yourself 3D dungeon kits available, and as such I have a strong sentimental attachment to it. The sets are reasonably easy to put together and use. However, the quality of this product is now overshadow [...]

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